LETTER: Obamacare minority forces views forward

We are in historic times. As I type, the Congress of the United States has shut down the government and is preparing to default on the government's borrowing abilities.

All because of a fanatic minority within the controlling party of the House called the tea party. They insist on shutting down Obamacare, a nationwide health care act duly passed by a previous Congress.

Being unable to muster the votes to repeal it legally they are holding the American economy hostage by threatening to ruin the credit of our nation if they don't get their way. It is not hard to visualize how a refusal to pay by Congress will wreck the nation's credit increasing interest rates from their current low rate to twice or three times interest or more.

A funding crisis may be precipitated that will cripple our country's ability to fund itself.

The nightmare debt crisis will have been created by the very people who claim to be protecting us from it. The last time this happened our credit rating was downgraded.

That was a warning from Wall Street. It cost us millions. This time it will be worse.

All because of the perception of irrational political instability created by our current Congress. This is not how our forefathers envisioned our democracy should work.

Virulent minorities are not supposed to wield power greater than their numbers in a democracy.

If they are allowed to obstruct due process then our government will become destabilized.

If due process doesn't work, then what will work? Uncertainty replaces confidence (especially in the minds of lenders, both foreign and domestic) and things start to unravel.

If this minority gets their way or even if they partially succeed, we have opened up a Pandora's Box of iniquitous possibilities, none of which bodes well for our nation.

Essentially what is being stated here goes far beyond whether a health care act is right or wrong for our country. The real statement being made is that our current form of government is no longer functional.

Its rules and means are no longer binding. The path to power now lies along the road of fanaticism.

I see nothing good down that road and much evil.

Mark Phillips

Evreux Drive

Murfreesboro

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LETTER: Obamacare minority forces views forward

We are in historic times. As I type, the Congress of the United States has shut down the government and is preparing to default on the government's borrowing abilities.